Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'The essential problem is that human language is not just about saying what and where things are and which qualities they harbor, such as being green or tall. Language is about what happened, what’s different, what’s on the move. At its core, language is all about the action — to wit, the verbs.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/opinion/verbs-language-instruction.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Guest%20Essays

'All​ over Europe, the police made the mistake of assuming that the next revolutionary outbreak would be the work of a handful of trained conspirators. The explosion of almost spontaneous mass uprisings by ‘the people’ – the pattern of 1848 – took governments, liberal reformers and even Count Metternich, the supreme architect of Europe’s post-1815 order, by surprise'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/neal-ascherson/kings-grew-pale

'This is also a broader issue. The UK’s share of global pharma R&D has dropped sharply since 2012, from 7.7 per cent to 4.2 per cent in 2020. Manufacturing has fallen since 2015, according to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, along with exports. '

https://www.ft.com/content/aed6c929-6eeb-4f6d-bce7-d36445fc5ebf

'Old and newly synthesized histones are asymmetrically distributed and inherited in Drosophila intestinal stem cell divisions. Disruption of asymmetric histone inheritance compromises stem cell differentiation, indicating a role in regulating cell fates in adult stem lineages in vivo.'

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embr.202256404

Here are 22 persuasive communication devices that you should watch out for when writing a research article. https://elifesciences.org/articles/88654?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features

Looking forward to this EMBO Workshop:

Enhanceropathies: Understanding Enhancer Function to Understand Human Disease

Marseille, 17-20 October, 2023

Register now:
https://meetings.embo.org/event/23-enhanceropathies

@JoannaMasel talk on "Solving the mutation load paradox via asymmetric effect sizes of deleterious and beneficial fixations offers an alternative to drift barrier theory" is coming up in ten minutes in Population Genetics symposium at #Evol2023!

Utagawa Hiroshige

Flies galore, of the parasitoid kind:

Tachinid fly, Gymnostoma rotundanum http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165099855 . The #Tachinidae lay eggs on the surface of their host—often other insects—with such strong glue that removing the egg would kill the host. Often even drop larvae directly on the hosts.

Thick-headed fly, Physocephala visatta http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165098840 The #Conopidae are internal parasites of bees and wasps—intercepting them in mid flight, the female’s abdomen has a “can opener” to insert an egg between the abdominal tergites of the host.

Beefly, Lasiopa sp. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165105614 The #Bombylidae drop their eggs while in flight near the entrance of solitary bee nests. The larvae crawl in and take over the bee’s resources of nectar and pollen, either starving or directly eating the bee larva.

All the adults happily sip nectar; the larvae, meanwhile, rival parasitoid wasps in their lifestyle and effectiveness.

#iNaturalist #entomology #insects #Diptera #Crete

Fascinating Macro Footage of Growing Tadpoles https://laughingsquid.com/macro-footage-tadpoles/

RT @BlocoDeEsquerda: "A vida não pode ser uma luta para conseguir o básico. As pessoas da minha idade vivem com medo do futuro: vivem em casa dos pais ou dividem casa".

➡️ Pode ver a entrevista completa de @MRMortagua em https://www.rtp.pt/play/p11147/e695736/grande-entrevista https://t.co/FnUuSLqiWP

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/joseggusmao/status/1664560750117920770

Robert McCabe, Archaia Thera, view to Perissa, 1961

PhD position

Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University

Come explore the evolution and ecology of RNA viruses using computational approaches in my lab at Vilnius University in Lithuania.

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Wonderful interview with the incredible ⁦‪@VirusesImmunity‬⁩ Completely agree we are not done with covid- long covid must be recognised by our political leaders and treatments and research funded and we need a plan to safely live with covid. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/immunologist-akiko-iwasaki-we-are-not-done-with-covid-not-even-close?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other